Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. In response to Deputy Munster, Mr. Sheridan mentioned working with local authorities, taking account of areas of demand. In the here and now that information is available by way of county development plans, housing demand and where, under population growth, these areas are allowed to go. So even if the Department did not speak to the local authority but looked at housing statistics and county development plans it would know where that would be. Again, I want to know how prescriptive this is going to be in harming the rural areas in all of our counties which avail of this at the moment and do not net any real new additional letting properties, which is what the Department wants to do but wanting to make them available to the Department.